# Can someone do me a favor? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 10, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-do-me-a-favor/284119 "2005-01-10T22:56:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![so\_da\_ne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@so\_da\_ne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/so_da_ne)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-do-me-a-favor/284119/1 "2005-01-10T22:56:09Z")
I’m trying to buy a small item and the only place I’ve found it is on a US office supply store’s website, and they don’t ship to Canada ☹ Is there a US Doper who can help me out? I was thinking someone could order it and then mail it to me. I can paypal the money to them or send a US $ money order. The purchase price is about $5 plus shipping. If anyone is willing to do this please send me an email, the addy is in my profile Thanks so much! ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Train\_Song](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-do-me-a-favor/284119/2 "2005-01-10T23:55:20Z")
What kind of thingy is it? I suppose I could do it for you if no one closer offers (I’m in Pennsylvania) Let me know. ---
**Author:** ![so\_da\_ne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@so\_da\_ne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/so_da_ne)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-do-me-a-favor/284119/3 "2005-01-11T01:32:06Z")
It’s a silly thing really but important to me they are paper clips… [these ones](http://www.b3.net/customer/product.php?productid=276&cat=9&page=1) I need a couple of boxes and I can’t find them anywhere here. Anyone? Please? ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-do-me-a-favor/284119/4 "2005-01-11T01:35:08Z")
Your call **Rooves** as I’m in the same state-therefore no closer. Unless some other doper hops in, it’s thee or me. ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Train\_Song](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-do-me-a-favor/284119/5 "2005-01-11T01:51:55Z")
How about a little rock paper scissors?? Er, I can do it. It’s been a while since I’ve been nice to a stranger. My email is [fdimaulo1@comcast.net](mailto:fdimaulo1@comcast.net) How about you order it to my address and I’ll send it to you fer free if it’s only a couple of bucks? No, yes? ---
**Author:** ![so\_da\_ne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@so\_da\_ne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/so_da_ne)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-do-me-a-favor/284119/6 "2005-01-11T02:42:04Z")
Thanks **Rooves** , an email is on the way, also thanks **danceswithcats** for your response! Once again Dopers save the day! ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-do-me-a-favor/284119/7 "2005-01-11T04:18:36Z")
I love it when a story has a happy ending. _snif_😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-do-me-a-favor/284119/8 "2005-01-11T06:07:46Z")
It appalls me that otherwise right-thinking Americans would casually participate in the dispersal of highly sophisticated triangular technology abroad, to a nation, no less, whose citizens recently booed our president. For pity’s sake, you know nothing about this **so\_da\_ne** (_if_ that’s his/her real name) or what s/he intends to do with these brass electroplated goodies. According to the source cited (and I don’t pretend to understand all the technical jargon), our northern neighbor will now be able not merely to organize letters, stolen classified documents, and grocery lists, but “easily clip all (his/her) originality in place.” I think even treasonous weak-kneed liberals would all agree that if originality _has_ a place, it certainly isn’t on the upper fringe of this continent, easily clipped for use against us. But you thoughtlessly abet the international proliferation of 28070#276 without a care for the consequences. Sure, you say, but \*\*so\_da\_me \*\* is a fellow doper, a buddy. Well, smart guy, what about Kim Jong Il? Is _he_ your pal too? Yet the idea of resale to the North Koreans never entered your mind. Well, I’m on to the scheme, and I’m blowing the whistle. P.S. \*\* Rooves\*\* and **danceswithcats** , if you’re actually with the Department of Homeland Security and are conducting a sting that will end with so\_da\_ne in a forgotten cell somewhere, please disregard this post. Let me know how it comes out. Use code. It doesn’t matter which one: as anyone who knows me will tell you, I can read hidden meanings in _anything_. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-do-me-a-favor/284119/9 "2005-01-11T06:42:35Z")
[hijack] Holy CRAP, this is cool! While doing a Google search for “triangle paper clips”, I ran across the [Early Office Museum](http://www.earlyofficemuseum.com/). Well worth a look. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Train\_Song](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-do-me-a-favor/284119/10 "2005-01-11T06:48:52Z")
King of soup… ```auto the chicken has flown the coop...(dot dot dot) I repeat, The fox is in the henhouse...(dot dot dot) end transmission ``` Thats one of the best nonsensical posts I think I may have read in the course of my many many sting operations. The triangular paperclip case is a touchy, hush hush type thing. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-do-me-a-favor/284119/11 "2005-01-11T07:04:20Z")
> [@Hunter Hawk](#): > > [hijack] > > Holy CRAP, this is cool! While doing a Google search for “triangle paper clips”, I ran across the [Early Office Museum](http://www.earlyofficemuseum.com/). Well worth a look. > > [/hijack] Neato! ---
**Author:** ![so\_da\_ne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@so\_da\_ne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/so_da_ne)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-do-me-a-favor/284119/12 "2005-01-11T14:09:13Z")
Ooh thanks for the tip about the [Early Office Museum](http://www.earlyofficemuseum.com/). Very cool! Look what can happen on a quest for a paper clip! I need the triangle ones to help make [these](http://www.digitizethis.com/travelogue/rash1/image_pages/kusudama.html). ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-do-me-a-favor/284119/13 "2005-01-11T16:01:22Z")
> [@so\_da\_ne](#): > > I need the triangle ones to help make [these](http://www.digitizethis.com/travelogue/rash1/image_pages/kusudama.html). Ah-_Hah_!